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Previous Weekly Bulletins

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9

SPECIAL CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon, Main Building (31 Washington Place), Room 1003
Theoretical modeling of Biopolymers: The Fluctuating Ribbon Model
Yitzhak Rabin, Dept. of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 613
Tba
Paul Vandenplas, Royal Military Academy, Brussels
This seminar is not finalized, but will probably take place. Please check the CIMS Bulletin website for updated information.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html
ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Nonclassical Traveling Wave Solutions: Coupling Motion by Mean Curvature with Surface Diffusion
Amy Novick-Cohen, Technion
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1013
  • 3:30 FILM: Stratified Flows (27 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK:
    Introduction to Biogeochemical Ocean Modeling
    Chris Konig, CIMS
Note special room.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD
Courant-SUNY Joint Symplectic Geometry Seminar: WWH 102
  • 4:15 - 5:15 P.M.
    Arnold Diffusion
    John Mather, Princeton University
  • 5:30 - 6:30 P.M.
    Symplectic Homology and Periodic Orbits Near Symplectic Submanifolds
    Eli Kerman, SUNY at SB

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Algorithms and Statistics for Nucleic Acid Secondary Structure Prediction
Michael Zuker, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Refreshments will be served from 11:15 - 11:30 A.M. in Room 1302 located on the 13th floor, 251 Mercer Street
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1013
  • 3:30 FILM: Rotating Flows (29 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK:
    Ekman Layers
    Helga Schaffrin, CIMS
Note Special Room.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
GENESIS: A Cluster Operating System that Offers a Single System Image
Andrzej M. Goscinski, Deakin University
Refreshments will be served from 11:15 - 11:30 A.M. in Room 1302 located on the 13th floor, 251 Mercer Street
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1013
  • 3:30 FILM: Surface Tension (30 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK:
    Tba
    Tba
Note Special Room.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

Special Announcements


THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
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Reader Information
Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253. Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email at struse@cims.nyu.edu

Copying: Larry Cohen

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 613
A European View of the Preent Status of the ITER Negotiations and of the Future of Fusion Energy
Paul Vandenplas, Royal Military Academy, Brussels
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html
ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Nonclassical Traveling Wave Solutions: Coupling Motion by Mean Curvature with Surface Diffusion
Amy Novick-Cohen, Technion
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 6:00 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Rankin Triple Products and Quantum Chaos
Thomas Watson, University of California at Los Angeles
NOTE ROOM NUMBER AND TIME.
See remaining Fall 2002 seminars at: http://www.math.nyu.edu/~sdmiller/

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13

COURANT INSTRUCTOR DAY: WWH 1302
  • 9:30 - 9:50 A.M.
    How a Helicase Unzips DNA
    Meredith Betterton
  • 9:50 - 10:10
    Analysis of Fluid Interfaces
    David Ambrose
  • 10:10 - 10:30
    Coarsening Rate for Models of Epitaxial Growth
    Xiaodong Yan
  • 10:30 - 10:50
    Forward and Inverse Wave Problems: Quantum Billiards and Brain Imaging
    Alex Barnett
  • BREAK
  • 11:20 - 11:40
    Asymptotic Completeness of Rayleigh Scattering
    Benjamin Schlein
  • 11:40 A.M. - 12:00 Noon
    Localization Criteria and Quantum Transport in Mesoscopic Systems
    Alexander Elgart
  • 12:00 Noon - 12:20 P.M.
    Renormalization Group Methods and Spectral Problems in Quantum Field Theory
    Thomas Chen
  • LUNCH BREAK
  • 2:00 - 2:20 P.M.
    Strongly Consistent Marching Schemes for the Wave Equation
    Jing Li
  • 2:20 - 2:40
    One-Bit Quantization
    Sinan Gunturk
  • 2:40 - 3:00
    On Geometric Multiscale Analysis with Relations to Some Problems of Geometric Measure Theory
    Gilad Lerman
  • BREAK
  • 3:10 - 3:30
    Analytic Torsions and Some Applications
    Hao Fang
  • 3:30 - 3:50 P.M.
    Whitney Disks in Low-Dimensional Topology
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1013
  • 3:30 FILM: Stratified Flows (27 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK:
    Introduction to Biogeochemical Ocean Modeling
    Chris Konig, CIMS
Note special room.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD
COURANT-SUNY JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: WWH 102
  • 4:15 - 5:15 P.M.
    Arnold Diffusion
    John Mather, Princeton University
  • 5:30 - 6:30 P.M.
    Symplectic Homology and Periodic Orbits Near Symplectic Submanifolds
    Eli Kerman, SUNY at SB

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Domain Decomposition Methods for Large Saddle Point Problems Arising in Elasticity and Incompressible Fluids
Olof Widlund, CIMS
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Algorithms and Statistics for Nucleic Acid Secondary Structure Prediction
Michael Zuker, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Refreshments will be served from 11:15 - 11:30 A.M. in Room 1302 located on the 13th floor, 251 Mercer Street
APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Heteroclinic Cycles and Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability in the Flow Between Exactly Counter-Rotating Disks
Laurette Tuckerman, LIMSI-CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1013
  • 3:30 FILM: Rotating Flows (29 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK:
    Ekman Layers
    Helga Schaffrin, CIMS
Note Special Room.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:00 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Vortex Bending for Bose-Einstein Condensates
Amandine Aftalion, Universite Paris VI
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Lattice Polygons and the Number 2i + 7
Christian Haase, Duke University
Note change of room number.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

MATH FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 101
Computing Benchmark Prices of Arithmetic-Average Asian Options
Michael Schroeder, Mannheim University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Filament Dynamics of Non newtonian Fluids
Linda Smolka, Penn State
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~mdb/aml.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
GENESIS: A Cluster Operating System that Offers a Single System Image
Andrzej M. Goscinski, Deakin University
Refreshments will be served from 11:15 - 11:30 A.M. in Room 1302 located on the 13th floor, 251 Mercer Street
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1013
  • 3:30 FILM: Surface Tension (30 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK:
    Tba
    Tba
Note Special Room.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

Special Announcements


NEW YORK QUANTUM INFORMATION SEMINAR: City University Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (at 34th St.), Science Center Room 4102, 4th floor of the Graduate Center. All talks will begin at 3:00 P.M.
  • September 25
    NMR: State Purification, Tomography, and All That
    Alexej Jerschow, Dept. of Chemistry, NYU
  • October 9
    Quantum Random Walks (exact title tba)
    Todd Brun, Institute for Advanced Study
  • October 23
    Quantum State Discrimination of Coherent States
    Steven van Enk, Bell Labs
  • November 6 (tba)
  • November 20 (tba)
  • December 4 (tba)
Building on the success of an informal seminar series that was organized this past summer, an interdisciplinary seminar on various aspects of quantum computing and quantum information will take place at the City University Graduate Center on Wednesday afternoons, ever other week.

Participants are also encouraged to give talks. The talks do not have to be about original research done by the speaker, but can, for example, be a report on a topic in the field of quantum information that the speaker finds interesting.

For additional information please contact Mark Hillery at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hunter College, at mhillery@hunter.cuny.edu

THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
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Reader Information
Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253. Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email at struse@cims.nyu.edu

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 813
The Square Sieve and the Lang-Trotter Conjecture
Ram Murty, Queen's University, Canada
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~sdmiller/

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Upper Bounds on Coarsening Rates
Xiaodong Yan, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Domain Decomposition Methods for Large Saddle Point Problems Arising in Elasticity and Incompressible Fluids
Olof Widlund, CIMS
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Algorithms and Statistics for Nucleic Acid Secondary Structure Prediction
Michael Zuker, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Refreshments will be served from 11:15 - 11:30 A.M. in Room 1302 located on the 13th floor, 251 Mercer Street
APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Heteroclinic Cycles and Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability in the Flow Between Exactly Counter-Rotating Disks
Laurette Tuckerman, LIMSI-CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1013
  • 3:30 FILM: Rotating Flows (29 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK:
    Ekman Layers
    Helga Schaffrin, CIMS
Note Special Room
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Fast Molecular Dynamics and High-Dimensional Interpolation
Bastiaan J. Braams, CIMS
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:00 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Vortex Bending for Bose-Einstein Condensates
Amandine Aftalion, Universite Paris VI
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Lattice Polygons and the Number 2i + 7
Christian Haase, Duke University
Note change of room number.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 513
Estimates of Automorphic Functions, and Representation Theory
Andre Reznikov, Bar Ilan University, Israel
NOTE CHANGE IN ROOM NUMBER
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~sdmiller/

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Piero D'Ancona, Universita ``La Sapienza'' di Roma
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 101
Computing Benchmark Prices of Arithmetic-Average Asian Options
Michael Schroeder, Mannheim University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
GENESIS: A Cluster Operating System that Offers a Single System Image
Andrzej M. Goscinski, Deakin University
Refreshments will be served from 11:15 - 11:30 A.M. in Room 1302 located on the 13th floor, 251 Mercer Street
APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Michael Ward, Dept. of Math, UBC
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1013
  • 3:30 FILM: Surface Tension (30 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK:
    Data Assimilation for ENSO Prediction
    Youmin Tang, CIMS
Note Special Room Number
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD
COURANT-SUNY JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: Stony Brook, Mathematics Building, Room Tba
  • 4:00 - 5:00 P.M.
    Holomorphic Curves as a Tool in Low-Dimensional Dynamics
    Helmut Hofer, CIMS
  • 5:15 - 6:15 P.M.
    Pruning, Thurston Classification and Other Things
    Andre de Carvalho, SUNY

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Boundary Value Problems for Linear and for Integrable Nonlinear PDE's
Thanassis Fokas, University of Cambridge

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 813
Tba
Erez Lapid, New York University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~sdmiller/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Well-Posedness of Vortex Sheets with Surface Tension
David Ambrose, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 101
Law and Mathematical Finance
Frank Partnoy, University of California, San Diego
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4

STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1314
  • 3:30 FILM: Fluid Drag, Part I (21 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK:
    Tba
    Speaker Tba
This seminar will now meet in WWH 1314 unless otherwise noted
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

Special Announcements


NEW YORK QUANTUM INFORMATION SEMINAR: City University Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (at 34th St.), Science Center Room 4102, 4th floor of the Graduate Center. All talks will begin at 3:00 P.M.
  • September 25
    NMR: State Purification, Tomography, and All That
    Alexej Jerschow, Dept. of Chemistry, NYU
  • October 9
    Quantum Random Walks (exact title tba)
    Todd Brun, Institute for Advanced Study
  • October 23
    Quantum State Discrimination of Coherent States
    Steven van Enk, Bell Labs
  • November 6 (tba)
  • November 20 (tba)
  • December 4 (tba)
Building on the success of an informal seminar series that was organized this past summer, an interdisciplinary seminar on various aspects of quantum computing and quantum information will take place at the City University Graduate Center on Wednesday afternoons, ever other week.

Participants are also encouraged to give talks. The talks do not have to be about original research done by the speaker, but can, for example, be a report on a topic in the field of quantum information that the speaker finds interesting.

For additional information please contact Mark Hillery at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hunter College, at mhillery@hunter.cuny.edu

THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
To SUBSCRIBE electronically for the CIMS Weekly Bulletin, send an email message to
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A complete listing of ITS classes, workshops, and talks is available on the NYU Web at http://www.nyu.edu/its/classes/. Printed copies can be obtained at the ITS Client Services Center, 10 Astor Place, 4th Floor.

Reader Information
Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253. Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email at struse@cims.nyu.edu

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 513
Estimates of Automorphic Functions, and Representation Theory
Andre Reznikov, Bar Ilan University, Israel
NOTE CHANGE IN ROOM NUMBER
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~sdmiller/

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Piero D'Ancona, Universita ``La Sapienza'' di Roma
NOTE: There is NO 11 A.M. Analysis Seminar. Instead there are two Special Analysis Seminars for Thursday, September 26
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 2:10 P.M., WWH 1302
Stationary Measure, Entropy and Structure Theorems
Amos Nevo, Technion
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 101
Computing Benchmark Prices of Arithmetic-Average Asian Options
Michael Schroeder, Mannheim University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Large Deviations for Random Walks in Random Environments
S.R.S. Varadhan, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
GENESIS: A Cluster Operating System that Offers a Single System Image
Andrzej M. Goscinski, Deakin University
Refreshments will be served from 11:15 - 11:30 A.M. in Room 1302 located on the 13th floor, 251 Mercer Street
APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Waves in Three-Dimensional Excitable Media
Dwight Barkley, Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick
Note the change in speaker
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1013
  • 3:30 FILM: Surface Tension (30 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK: Data Assimilation for ENSO Prediction
    Youmin Tang, CIMS
Note Special Room Number
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD
COURANT-SUNY JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: Stony Brook, Mathematics Building, Room Tba
  • 4:00 - 5:00 P.M.
    Holomorphic Curves as a Tool in Low-Dimensional Dynamics
    Helmut Hofer, CIMS
  • 5:15 - 6:15 P.M.
    Pruning, Thurston Classification and Other Things
    Andre de Carvalho, SUNY

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Determining the Velocity and Variance-Growth Curves as a Function of Load in a Model of the Molecular Motor Protein Kinesin
Paul Atzberger, CIMS
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Boundary Value Problems for Linear and for Integrable Nonlinear PDE's
Thanassis Fokas, University of Cambridge

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 813
Tba
Erez Lapid, New York University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~sdmiller/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Well-Posedness of Vortex Sheets with Surface Tension
David Ambrose, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 101
Law and Mathematical Finance
Frank Partnoy, University of California, San Diego
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Inexact Krylov Subspace Methods and Applications to Scientific Computing
Daniel B. Szyld, Temple University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Transport by Random Flows
Leonid Koralov, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Continuous Valuations and Their Applications
Alesker Semyon, Tel Aviv University
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1013
  • 3:30 FILM: Fluid Drag, Part I (21 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK: Tba
    Speaker Tba
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Maintining Phase Between Neuronal Oscillators Using Synaptic Depression
Amit Bose, NJIT and CIMS
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Construction of Solutions to the Yang-Mills Equations in Higher Dimensions
Simon Brendle, IAS and Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Blow-Up Theory for Elliptic PDEs
Emmanuel Hebey, Universite Cergy-Pontoise
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Jurrow Lecture Hall, Silver Center of Arts and Sciences, 100 Washington Square East, 1st Floor, NY, NY
American Options: The ``Risk'' of Making More Money Than You Expected
Paul Wilmott, Wilmott Associates
NOTE the change in place!
There will be a reception immediately following the event at Silverstein Lounge.
This event is sponsored by Island ECN.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Tba
Elon Lindenstrauss, Stanford University
Note room number
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~sdmiller/

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Stress Driven Grain Boundary Diffusion in Microchips
Jon Wilkening, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Slipping, Sliding, and Spinning: New Insights into Grain Growth in Polycrystals
Jean Taylor, Mathematics, Rutgers University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1314
  • 3:30 FILM: Fluid Drag, Part II (31 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK: Sea-Ice Thermodynamics
    Ryan Walker, CIMS
Seminars will now meet in Room 1314 unless otherwise noted.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

Special Announcements


NEW YORK QUANTUM INFORMATION SEMINAR: City University Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (at 34th St.), Science Center Room 4102, 4th floor of the Graduate Center. All talks will begin at 3:00 P.M.
  • September 25
    NMR: State Purification, Tomography, and All That
    Alexej Jerschow, Dept. of Chemistry, NYU
  • October 9
    Quantum Random Walks (exact title tba)
    Todd Brun, Institute for Advanced Study
  • October 23
    Quantum State Discrimination of Coherent States
    Steven van Enk, Bell Labs
  • November 6 (tba)
  • November 20 (tba)
  • December 4 (tba)
Building on the success of an informal seminar series that was organized this past summer, an interdisciplinary seminar on various aspects of quantum computing and quantum information will take place at the City University Graduate Center on Wednesday afternoons, ever other week.

Participants are also encouraged to give talks. The talks do not have to be about original research done by the speaker, but can, for example, be a report on a topic in the field of quantum information that the speaker finds interesting.

For additional information please contact Mark Hillery at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hunter College, at mhillery@hunter.cuny.edu

THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
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NOTICE:
A complete listing of ITS classes, workshops, and talks is available on the NYU Web at http://www.nyu.edu/its/classes/. Printed copies can be obtained at the ITS Client Services Center, 10 Astor Place, 4th Floor.

Reader Information
Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253. Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email at struse@cims.nyu.edu

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 813
A Different Look at the Trace Formula
Erez Lapid, New York University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~sdmiller/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Well-Posedness of Vortex Sheets with Surface Tension
David Ambrose, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 101
Law and Mathematical Finance
Frank Partnoy, University of California, San Diego
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Inexact Krylov Subspace Methods and Applications to Scientific Computing
Daniel B. Szyld, Temple University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 613
Tweakable Block Ciphers
Michael Freedman, CIMS
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Transport by Random Flows
Leonid Koralov, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
An Optimal Competitive Algorithm for the Dynamic Selection of Component Implementations
Daniel M. Yellin, IBM Distinguished Engineer, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (Affiliated)
Refreshments will be served from 11:15 - 11:30 A.M. in Room 1302 located on the 13th floor, 251 Mercer Street
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Continuous Valuations and Their Applications
Alesker Semyon, Tel Aviv University
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1013
  • 3:30 FILM: Fluid Drag, Part I (21 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK: Tba
    Speaker Tba
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

MONDAY, OCTOBER 7

MATH COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 - 5:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Singularity Removal Theorem for Yang-Mills Equation
Gang Tian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Special Note: Colloquium Tea in Room 1302, 3:15 - 3:45 P.M.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Maintining Phase Between Neuronal Oscillators Using Synaptic Depression
Amit Bose, NJIT and CIMS
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1013
Construction of Solutions to the Yang-Mills Equations in Higher Dimensions
Simon Brendle, IAS and Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Blow-Up Theory for Elliptic PDEs
Emmanuel Hebey, Universite Cergy-Pontoise
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Jurrow Lecture Hall, Silver Center of Arts and Sciences, 100 Washington Square East, 1st Floor, NY, NY
American Options: The ``Risk'' of Making More Money Than You Expected
Paul Wilmott, Wilmott Associates
NOTE the change in place!
There will be a reception immediately following the event at Silverstein Lounge.
This event is sponsored by Island ECN.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Tba
Elon Lindenstrauss, Stanford University
NOTE date and room changes
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~sdmiller/

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Stress Driven Grain Boundary Diffusion in Microchips
Jon Wilkening, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 613
Provably Secure Steganography
Nelly Fazio, CIMS
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Anderson Localization for Schrodinger Operators on Z [sup 2] with Quasi-Periodic Potential (Joint work with J. Bourgain and W. Schlag)
Michael Goldstein, University of Toronto
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Michael Naimark, Independent Media Artist and Researcher
Refreshments will be served from 11:15 - 11:30 A.M. in Room 1302 located on the 13th floor, 251 Mercer Street
APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Slipping, Sliding, and Spinning: New Insights into Grain Growth in Polycrystals
Jean Taylor, Mathematics, Rutgers University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1314
  • 3:30 FILM: Fluid Drag, Part II (31 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK: Sea-Ice Thermodynamics
    Ryan Walker, CIMS
Seminars will now meet in Room 1314 unless otherwise noted.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD
COURANT-SUNY JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: WWH 101
  • 3:45 - 4:45 P.M.
    The Hofer Norm and Dynamics
    Dusa McDuff, Stony Brook
  • 5:00 - 6:00 P.M.
    Indifferent Periodic Points in Complex Dimension 1
    Saeed Zakeri, Stony Brook
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~hofer/symplectic.html

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1013
A SAMRAI-Based Implementation of the Immersed Boundary Method: SAMRAI Basics, an Approximate Projection Method, and Preliminary Results
Boyce Griffith, CIMS
SAMRAI (Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement Application Infrastructure) is a software package developed at the Center for Applied Scientific Computation, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 613
Spectral Properties of Hypoelliptic Operators
Jean-Pierre Eckmann, University of Geneva
NOTE CHANGE IN DAY AND ADDITIONAL CHANGE IN TIME
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Boltzmann-Grad Limit for the Stochastic Hard Sphere Model
Fraydoun Rezakhanlou, UC Berkeley
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probsemabs02/fraydounab.pdf
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 P.M., WWH 613
On the Number of Embeddings of Minimally Rigid Graphs
Ileana Streinu, Smith College
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Is the Gulf Stream Responsible for Europe's Mild Winters?
Richard Seager, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Igor Rodnianski, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 101
A Simple Theory of the ``Cubic'' Laws of Stock Market Activity
Xavier Gabaix, MIT and The Russel Sage Foundation
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Analysis and Numerical Treatment of Eigenvalue Crossings in Molecular Dynamics
Caroline Lasser, Technische Universitaet Muenchen
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Time Reversal of Waves in Random Media
Lenya Ryzhik, University of Chicago
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Poisson Geometry and Topology of Surfaces
Alan Weinstein, UC Berkeley
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: Room Tba
  • 3:30 FILM: Fluid Drag, Part III (37 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK: Large Deviation Approach to Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
    Kyle Haven, CIMS
Note Special Room Number
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

Special Announcements


NEW YORK QUANTUM INFORMATION SEMINAR: City University Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (at 34th St.), Science Center Room 4102, 4th floor of the Graduate Center. All talks will begin at 3:00 P.M.
  • September 25
    NMR: State Purification, Tomography, and All That
    Alexej Jerschow, Dept. of Chemistry, NYU
  • October 9
    Quantum Random Walks (exact title tba)
    Todd Brun, Institute for Advanced Study
  • October 23
    Quantum State Discrimination of Coherent States
    Steven van Enk, Bell Labs
  • November 6 (tba)
  • November 20 (tba)
  • December 4 (tba)
Building on the success of an informal seminar series that was organized this past summer, an interdisciplinary seminar on various aspects of quantum computing and quantum information will take place at the City University Graduate Center on Wednesday afternoons, ever other week.

Participants are also encouraged to give talks. The talks do not have to be about original research done by the speaker, but can, for example, be a report on a topic in the field of quantum information that the speaker finds interesting.

For additional information please contact Mark Hillery at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hunter College, at mhillery@hunter.cuny.edu

THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
To SUBSCRIBE electronically for the CIMS Weekly Bulletin, send an email message to
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NOTICE:
A complete listing of ITS classes, workshops, and talks is available on the NYU Web at http://www.nyu.edu/its/classes/. Printed copies can be obtained at the ITS Client Services Center, 10 Astor Place, 4th Floor.

Reader Information
Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253. Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email at struse@cims.nyu.edu

Copying: Larry Cohen

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Blow-Up Theory for Elliptic PDEs
Emmanuel Hebey, Universite Cergy-Pontoise
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., Jurrow Lecture Hall, Silver Center of Arts and Sciences, 100 Washington Square East, 1st Floor, NY, NY
American Options: The ``Risk'' of Making More Money Than You Expected
Paul Wilmott, Wilmott Associates
NOTE the change in place!
There will be a reception immediately following the event at Silverstein Lounge.
This event is sponsored by Island ECN.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 613
Tba
Elon Lindenstrauss, Stanford University
NOTE date and room changes
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~sdmiller/

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Stress Driven Grain Boundary Diffusion in Microchips
Jon Wilkening, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 613
Provably Secure Steganography
Nelly Fazio, CIMS
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Anderson Localization for Schrodinger Operators on Z [sup 2] with Quasi-Periodic Potential (Joint work with J. Bourgain and W. Schlag)
Michael Goldstein, University of Toronto
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Future Cameras
Michael Naimark, Independent Media Artist and Researcher
Refreshments will be served from 11:15 - 11:30 A.M. in Room 1302 located on the 13th floor, 251 Mercer Street
APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Slipping, Sliding, and Spinning: New Insights into Grain Growth in Polycrystals
Jean Taylor, Mathematics, Rutgers University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1013
  • 3:30 FILM: Fluid Drag, Part II (31 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK: Sea-Ice Thermodynamics
    Ryan Walker, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD
COURANT-SUNY JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: WWH 101
  • 3:45 - 4:45 P.M.
    The Hofer Norm and Dynamics
    Dusa McDuff, Stony Brook
  • 5:00 - 6:00 P.M.
    Indifferent Periodic Points in Complex Dimension 1
    Saeed Zakeri, Stony Brook
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~hofer/symplectic.html

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1013
A SAMRAI-Based Implementation of the Immersed Boundary Method: SAMRAI Basics, an Approximate Projection Method, and Preliminary Results
Boyce Griffith, CIMS
SAMRAI (Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement Application Infrastructure) is a software package developed at the Center for Applied Scientific Computation, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 613
Spectral Properties of Hypoelliptic Operators
Jean-Pierre Eckmann, University of Geneva
NOTE CHANGE IN DAY AND ADDITIONAL CHANGE IN TIME
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Boltzmann-Grad Limit for the Stochastic Hard Sphere Model
Fraydoun Rezakhanlou, UC Berkeley
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probsemabs02/fraydounab.pdf
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 P.M., WWH 613
On the Number of Embeddings of Minimally Rigid Graphs
Ileana Streinu, Smith College
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: 3:00 - 4:00 P.M., Room Tba
Poisson Geometry and Topology of Surfaces
Alan Weinstein, UC Berkeley
Please notice change of weekday
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Is the Gulf Stream Responsible for Europe's Mild Winters?
Richard Seager, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Asymptotic Stability of Multi-Soliton States of NLS
Igor Rodnianski, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 101
A Simple Theory of the ``Cubic'' Laws of Stock Market Activity
Xavier Gabaix, MIT and The Russel Sage Foundation
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: No Seminar due to Computational Science Show-and-Tell
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Analysis and Numerical Treatment of Eigenvalue Crossings in Molecular Dynamics
Caroline Lasser, Technische Universitaet Muenchen
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Time Reversal of Waves in Random Media
Lenya Ryzhik, University of Chicago
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Sampling and Inference in Network Measurement
Nick Duffield, ATT Research
Refreshments will be served from 11:15 - 11:30 A.M. in Room 1302 located on the 13th floor, 251 Mercer Street
COURANT-FAS SCIENCE SHOW-AND-TELL: 2:00 - 6:00 P.M., WWH 109
This first Science Show-and-Tell will bring together faculty from Courant and from the science departments within FAS so that each can learn about scientific research in each unit, and to look for areas of common interest. There will be 8-10 individual presentations, followed by a reception.
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1013
  • 3:30 FILM: Fluid Drag, Part III (37 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK: Large Deviation Approach to Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
    Kyle Haven, CIMS
Note Special Room Number
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

MONDAY, OCTOBER 21

NeuroMONDAY SEMINAR: 7:00 - 9:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Organization of Inhibitory Synaptic Circuits in Layer 4 of Ferret Visual Cortex Related to Direction Preference Maps
Birgit Roerig, University of Maryland
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~tao/neuroday/schedule.html

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 813
Water Entry of Blunt Bodies
Sam Howison, Oxford University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Helicase Opening of Duplex Nucleic Acids: Active versus Passive Opening
Meredith Betterton
NOTE: Please note change to Room 1314, which will be the regular room for this seminar from now on.
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Solid Angles of Polytopes
Sinai Robins, Temple University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Thermobaric Effects on Large-Scale Planetary Disturbances in the Ocean
Roland deSzoeke, Oregon State University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 813
Tba
Nicolas Bergeron, Orsay, France
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~sdmiller/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24

MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 101
Pricing and Hedging in Incomplete Markets: Fundamental Theorems and Robust Utility Maximization
Jeremy Staum, Cornell University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25

5th Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos : 8:30 A.M. - 6:25 P.M., WWH 102
A two-day Workshop, October 25-26, 2002. For full program, see attached flyer
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A posteriori Error Estimation in Turbulent Flow (and transition to turbulence in plane Couette flow)
Johan Hoffman, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Flapping + Falling = Hovering
Marvin Jones, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1013
  • 3:30 FILM: Fluid Drag, Part IV (24 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK: Generalized Sverdrup Transport: Application to Lake Vostok Dynamics
    Diana Collins, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26

5th Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos : 8:30 A.M. - 6:25 P.M., WWH 102
For full program, see attached flyer

Special Announcements


NEW YORK QUANTUM INFORMATION SEMINAR: City University Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (at 34th St.), Science Center Room 4102, 4th floor of the Graduate Center. All talks will begin at 3:00 P.M.
  • September 25
    NMR: State Purification, Tomography, and All That
    Alexej Jerschow, Dept. of Chemistry, NYU
  • October 9
    Quantum Random Walks (exact title tba)
    Todd Brun, Institute for Advanced Study
  • October 23
    Quantum State Discrimination of Coherent States
    Steven van Enk, Bell Labs
  • November 6 (tba)
  • November 20 (tba)
  • December 4 (tba)
Building on the success of an informal seminar series that was organized this past summer, an interdisciplinary seminar on various aspects of quantum computing and quantum information will take place at the City University Graduate Center on Wednesday afternoons, ever other week.

Participants are also encouraged to give talks. The talks do not have to be about original research done by the speaker, but can, for example, be a report on a topic in the field of quantum information that the speaker finds interesting.

For additional information please contact Mark Hillery at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hunter College, at mhillery@hunter.cuny.edu

THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
To SUBSCRIBE electronically for the CIMS Weekly Bulletin, send an email message to
majordomo@cs.nyu.edu
and in the body of the message type only the following 2 lines:
subscribe cimsbulletin
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Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253. Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

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Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16

DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: 3:00 - 4:00 P.M., WWH 813
Poisson Geometry and Topology of Surfaces
Alan Weinstein, UC Berkeley
Please notice change of weekday
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Is the Gulf Stream Responsible for Europe's Mild Winters?
Richard Seager, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Asymptotic Stability of Multi-Soliton States of NLS
Igor Rodnianski, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Liquid Crystalline Photonic Band Gap Materials
Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 101
A Simple Theory of the ``Cubic'' Laws of Stock Market Activity
Xavier Gabaix, MIT and The Russel Sage Foundation
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: No Seminar due to Computational Science Show-and-Tell
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Analysis and Numerical Treatment of Eigenvalue Crossings in Molecular Dynamics
Caroline Lasser, Technische Universitaet Muenchen
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 613
Tba
Aggelos Kiayias, UConn Computer Science and Engineering Department
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Time Reversal of Waves in Random Media
Lenya Ryzhik, University of Chicago
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Sampling and Inference in Network Measurement
Nick Duffield, ATT Research
Refreshments will be served from 11:15 - 11:30 A.M. in Room 1302 located on the 13th floor, 251 Mercer Street
COURANT-FAS SCIENCE SHOW-AND-TELL: 2:00 - 6:00 P.M., WWH 109
This first Science Show-and-Tell will bring together faculty from Courant and from the science departments within FAS so that each can learn about scientific research in each unit, and to look for areas of common interest. There will be 8-10 individual presentations, followed by a reception.
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1013
  • 3:30 FILM: Fluid Drag, Part III (37 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK: Large Deviation Approach to Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
    Kyle Haven, CIMS
Note Special Room Number
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

MONDAY, OCTOBER 21

NeuroMONDAY SEMINAR: 7:00 - 9:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Organization of Inhibitory Synaptic Circuits in Layer 4 of Ferret Visual Cortex Related to Direction Preference Maps
Birgit Roerig, University of Maryland
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~tao/neuroday/schedule.html

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22

APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 813
Water Entry of Blunt Bodies
Sam Howison, Oxford University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Helicase Opening of Duplex Nucleic Acids: Active versus Passive Opening
Meredith Betterton, CIMS
NOTE: Please note change to Room 1314, which will be the regular room for this seminar from now on.
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Solid Angles of Polytopes
Sinai Robins, Temple University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Thermobaric Effects on Large-Scale Planetary Disturbances in the Ocean
Roland deSzoeke, Oregon State University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 813
On the (co-)Homology of Real and Complex Hyperbolic Arithmetic Manifolds
Nicolas Bergeron, Orsay, France
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~sdmiller/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
In vivo Imaging of Water Soluble Fluorescent Nanocrystals
Benoit Dubertret, Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, Rockefeller University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 101
Pricing and Hedging in Incomplete Markets: Fundamental Theorems and Robust Utility Maximization
Jeremy Staum, Cornell University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25

5th Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos : 8:30 A.M. - 6:25 P.M., WWH 102
A two-day Workshop, October 25-26, 2002. For full program, see attached flyer
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A posteriori Error Estimation in Turbulent Flow (and transition to turbulence in plane Couette flow)
Johan Hoffman, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 613
Fractal Traversal of Merkle Trees
Markus Jakobsson, RSA Laboratories
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto
APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Flapping + Falling = Hovering
Marvin Jones, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1013
  • 3:30 FILM: Fluid Drag, Part IV (24 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK: Generalized Sverdrup Transport: Application to Lake Vostok Dynamics
    Diana Collins, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26

5th Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos : 8:30 A.M. - 6:25 P.M., WWH 102
For full program, see attached flyer

MONDAY, OCTOBER 28

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Local Conformal Invariants and Q-Curvature
Charles Fefferman, Princeton University
First of a series of 4 lectures by Charles Fefferman. The second (follow-up) lecture will be at 11:00 A.M. on Tuesday, October 29th. Third lecture on 11/7, and fourth lecture on 11/14.
NeuroMONDAY SEMINAR: 7:00 - 9:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Ferenc Mechler, Cornell University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~tao/neuroday/schedule.html

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Local Conformal Invariants and Q-Curvature (Continued)
Charles Fefferman, Princeton University
Third lecture on 11/7, and fourth lecture on 11/14.
MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Models of Electrolyte Transport in the Kidney Collecting Duct: Physiology and Pathophysiology
Alan Weinstein, CIMS and Weill Medical College of Cornell University
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
New Results and Analytic Methods in the Study of the Time-Dependent Schrodinger Equation
Ovidiu Costin, Rutgers University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probsemabs02/fraydounab.pdf

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30

SPECIAL APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Dancing Vortices
Tadashi Tokieda, University of Quebec, Montreal
NOTE SPECIAL DAY AND TIME
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Recent Developments in Hurricane Dynamics
Michael Montgomery, Colorado State University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Purely Nonlinear Instability of Standing Waves with Minimal Energy
Andrew Comech, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Topological Patterns in Complex Networks
Sergei Maslov, Brookhaven National Laboratory
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 101
Asymmetric Dynamics in the Correlations of Global Equity and Bond Returns
Robert Engle, NYU Stern School of Business
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 613
How to Fool an Unbounded Adversary with a Short Key
Roberto Oliveira
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Quantum Computing: A 90-minute Tutorial
Yaoyun Shi, University of Michigan
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Statistical Learning: Overview and Applications
Tomaso Poggio, Center for Biological and Computational Learning, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and McGovern Institute for Brain Research, M.I.T.
Refreshments will be served from 11:15 - 11:30 A.M. in Room 1302 located on the 13th floor, 251 Mercer Street
APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1013
  • 3:30 FILM: Fluid Drag, Part IV (24 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK: Equatorward Propagation of Inertia-Gravity Waves
    Oliver Buhler, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

Special Announcements


NEW YORK QUANTUM INFORMATION SEMINAR: City University Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (at 34th St.), Science Center Room 4102, 4th floor of the Graduate Center. All talks will begin at 3:00 P.M.
  • September 25
    NMR: State Purification, Tomography, and All That
    Alexej Jerschow, Dept. of Chemistry, NYU
  • October 9
    Quantum Random Walks (exact title tba)
    Todd Brun, Institute for Advanced Study
  • October 23
    Quantum State Discrimination of Coherent States
    Steven van Enk, Bell Labs
  • November 6 (tba)
  • November 20 (tba)
  • December 4 (tba)
Building on the success of an informal seminar series that was organized this past summer, an interdisciplinary seminar on various aspects of quantum computing and quantum information will take place at the City University Graduate Center on Wednesday afternoons, ever other week.

Participants are also encouraged to give talks. The talks do not have to be about original research done by the speaker, but can, for example, be a report on a topic in the field of quantum information that the speaker finds interesting.

For additional information please contact Mark Hillery at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hunter College, at mhillery@hunter.cuny.edu

THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
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Reader Information
Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253. Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email at struse@cims.nyu.edu

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Thermobaric Effects on Large-Scale Planetary Disturbances in the Ocean
Roland deSzoeke, Oregon State University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 813
On the (co-)Homology of Real and Complex Hyperbolic Arithmetic Manifolds
Nicolas Bergeron, Orsay, France
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~sdmiller/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Richtmyer-Meshkov and Accelerated Inhomogeneous Flows: Simulation, Vortex Physics, Visiometrics and Modeling
Norman J. Zabusky, Dept. MAE and CAIP, Rutgers University
Note change in speaker and title
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 101
Pricing and Hedging in Incomplete Markets: Fundamental Theorems and Robust Utility Maximization
Jeremy Staum, Cornell University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25

5th Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos : 8:30 A.M. - 6:25 P.M., WWH 102
A two-day Workshop, October 25-26, 2002. For full program, see attached flyer
For program, click on the link: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/short_courses/, then click on Upcoming Special Events for the Acrobat pdf file.
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: CANCELLED
No Seminar because of the 5th Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 613
Fractal Traversal of Merkle Trees
Markus Jakobsson, RSA Laboratories
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 10:00 A.M., WWH 109
A New Kind of Science
Stephen Wolfram, Center of Mathematica, Author of A New Kind of Science and CEO of Wolfram Research Inc.
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: NO SEMINAR TODAY
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Flapping + Falling = Hovering
Marvin Jones, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1314
  • 3:30 FILM: Fluid Drag, Part IV (24 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK: Generalized Sverdrup Transport: Application to Lake Vostok Dynamics
    Diana Collins, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26

5th Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos : 8:30 A.M. - 6:25 P.M., WWH 102
For full program, see attached flyer
For program, click on the link: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/short_courses/, then click on Upcoming Special Events for the Acrobat pdf file.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 28

MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM: 3:45 P.M., WWH 1302
Local Conformal Invariants and Q-Curvature
Charles Fefferman, Princeton University
First of a series of 4 lectures by Charles Fefferman. The second (follow-up) lecture will be at 11:00 A.M. on Tuesday, October 29th. Third lecture on 11/7, and fourth lecture on 11/14.
NEURO MONDAY SEMINAR: 7:00 - 9:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Neuronal Representation of Spatial Phase and One-Dimensional Shape in the Primary Visual Cortex
Ferenc Mechler, Cornell University
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~tao/neuroday/schedule.html

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Local Conformal Invariants and Q-Curvature (Continued)
Charles Fefferman, Princeton University
Third lecture on 11/7, and fourth lecture on 11/14.
MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Models of Electrolyte Transport in the Kidney Collecting Duct: Physiology and Pathophysiology
Alan Weinstein, CIMS and Weill Medical College of Cornell University
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
New Results and Analytic Methods in the Study of the Time-Dependent Schrodinger Equation
Ovidiu Costin, Rutgers University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probsemabs02/fraydounab.pdf

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30

SPECIAL APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Dancing Vortices
Tadashi Tokieda, University of Quebec, Montreal
NOTE SPECIAL DAY AND TIME
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Recent Developments in Hurricane Dynamics
Michael Montgomery, Colorado State University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Purely Nonlinear Instability of Standing Waves with Minimal Energy
Andrew Comech, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Topological Patterns in Complex Networks
Sergei Maslov, Brookhaven National Laboratory
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 101
Asymmetric Dynamics in the Correlations of Global Equity and Bond Returns
Robert Engle, NYU Stern School of Business
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 613
How to Fool an Unbounded Adversary with a Short Key
Roberto Oliveira
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Quantum Computing: A 90-minute Tutorial
Yaoyun Shi, University of Michigan
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Statistical Learning: Overview and Applications
Tomaso Poggio, Center for Biological and Computational Learning, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and McGovern Institute for Brain Research, M.I.T.
Refreshments will be served from 11:15 - 11:30 A.M. in Room 1302 located on the 13th floor, 251 Mercer Street
APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1314
  • 3:30 FILM: Fluid Drag, Part IV (24 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK: Equatorward Propagation of Inertia-Gravity Waves
    Oliver Buhler, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD
COURANT-SUNY JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: SUNY at Stony Brook, P131 in Math Building
  • 4:00 - 5:00 P.M.
    Stable Ergodicity, Partial Hyperbolicity, and Lyapunov Exponents
    Yakov Pesin, Penn State
  • 5:15 - 6:15 P.M.
    Hamiltonian Loop Group Actions and the Topology of Symplectic Quotients
    Sue Tolman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~hofer/symplectic.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Reproducibility of the Single-Photon Response of Retinal Rods: Testing Theories by Detailed Stochastic Modeling of Underlying Biochemical Mechanisms
Daniel Tranchina, Dept. of Biology, CIMS, and Center for Neural Science
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 613
Existence and Regularity Theorems for a Model Arising from Electrical Heating of Conductors
Xiangsheng Xu, Mississippi State University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probsemabs02/fraydounab.pdf
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 613
Tba
Xiangsheng Xu, Mississippi State University
NOTE CHANGE IN DAY, TIME AND ROOM NUMBER.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 P.M., WWH 613
A Helly-type Theorem for Line Transversals to Disjoint Unit Balls
Andreas Holmsen, University of Bergen
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 813
Poles of Artin L-Functions and the Strong Artin Conjecture
Andrew Booker, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~sdmiller/

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 9:45 - 10:45 A.M., WWH 1302
Sharp Fronts in 2d-Incompressible Fluids
Charles Fefferman, Princeton University
Third lecture by Charles Fefferman. Fourth lecture on 11/14.
SPECIAL APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1314
The Stability and Dynamics of Localized Patterns for a Reaction-Diffusion System
Michael Ward, Mathematics University of British Columbia
NOTE SPECIAL DAY AND TIME
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html
ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Renormalized Group Technique and Asymptotics of Reaction-Diffusion Equations
Yi Li, University of Iowa
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Speaker Tba
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 101
Tba
Oren Cheyette, Barra
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: CANCELLED
No Seminar because of the Computer Science Department Review
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Robert Shapley, Center for Neural Science and CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1314
  • 3:30 FILM: Channel Flow of a Compressible Fluid (29 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK: Geostrophic Turbulence (Charney 1971)
    Andrea Barreiro, CIMS
Note Special Room Number
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

Special Announcements


NEW YORK QUANTUM INFORMATION SEMINAR: City University Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (at 34th St.), Science Center Room 4102, 4th floor of the Graduate Center. All talks will begin at 3:00 P.M.
  • September 25
    NMR: State Purification, Tomography, and All That
    Alexej Jerschow, Dept. of Chemistry, NYU
  • October 9
    Quantum Random Walks (exact title tba)
    Todd Brun, Institute for Advanced Study
  • October 23
    Quantum State Discrimination of Coherent States
    Steven van Enk, Bell Labs
  • November 6 (tba)
  • November 20 (tba)
  • December 4 (tba)
Building on the success of an informal seminar series that was organized this past summer, an interdisciplinary seminar on various aspects of quantum computing and quantum information will take place at the City University Graduate Center on Wednesday afternoons, ever other week.

Participants are also encouraged to give talks. The talks do not have to be about original research done by the speaker, but can, for example, be a report on a topic in the field of quantum information that the speaker finds interesting.

For additional information please contact Mark Hillery at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hunter College, at mhillery@hunter.cuny.edu

THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
To SUBSCRIBE electronically for the CIMS Weekly Bulletin, send an email message to
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30

SPECIAL APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Dancing Vortices
Tadashi Tokieda, University of Quebec, Montreal
NOTE SPECIAL DAY AND TIME
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Recent Developments in Hurricane Dynamics
Michael Montgomery, Colorado State University
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Purely Nonlinear Instability of Standing Waves with Minimal Energy
Andrew Comech, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Topological Patterns in Complex Networks
Sergei Maslov, Brookhaven National Laboratory
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 101
Asymmetric Dynamics in the Correlations of Global Equity and Bond Returns
Robert Engle, NYU Stern School of Business
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 613
How to Fool an Unbounded Adversary with a Short Key
Roberto Oliveira
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Quantum Computing: A 90-minute Tutorial
Yaoyun Shi, University of Michigan
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Statistical Learning: Overview and Applications
Tomaso Poggio, Center for Biological and Computational Learning, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and McGovern Institute for Brain Research, M.I.T.
Refreshments will be served from 11:15 - 11:30 A.M. in Room 1302 located on the 13th floor, 251 Mercer Street
APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Noninvasive Imaging of the Brain with Diffusing Light Pulses
Alexander Barnett, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1314
  • 3:30 FILM: Fluid Drag, Part IV (24 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK: Equatorward Propagation of Inertia-Gravity Waves
    Oliver Buhler, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD
COURANT-SUNY JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: SUNY at Stony Brook, P131 in Math Building
  • 4:00 - 5:00 P.M.
    Stable Ergodicity, Partial Hyperbolicity, and Lyapunov Exponents
    Yakov Pesin, Penn State
  • 5:15 - 6:15 P.M.
    Hamiltonian Loop Group Actions and the Topology of Symplectic Quotients
    Sue Tolman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~hofer/symplectic.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 12:00 Noon - 2:00 P.M., WWH 1013
Limiting Distributions for Last Passage Percolation Models I: Introduction, Application and Random Matrices
Jinho Baik, Princeton University and University of Michigan
First lecture of 3. Second lecture is on November 12th; third lecture is on November 15th.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Reproducibility of the Single-Photon Response of Retinal Rods: Testing Theories by Detailed Stochastic Modeling of Underlying Biochemical Mechanisms
Daniel Tranchina, Dept. of Biology, CIMS, and Center for Neural Science
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 613
Existence and Regularity Theorems for a Model Arising from Electrical Heating of Conductors
Xiangsheng Xu, Mississippi State University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probsemabs02/fraydounab.pdf
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 613
Tba
Xiangsheng Xu, Mississippi State University
NOTE CHANGE IN DAY, TIME AND ROOM NUMBER.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 P.M., WWH 613
A Helly-type Theorem for Line Transversals to Disjoint Unit Balls
Andreas Holmsen, University of Bergen
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6

NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 813
Poles of Artin L-Functions and the Strong Artin Conjecture
Andrew Booker, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~sdmiller/

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 9:45 - 10:45 A.M., WWH 1302
Sharp Fronts in 2d-Incompressible Fluids
Charles Fefferman, Princeton University
Third lecture by Charles Fefferman. Fourth lecture on 11/14.
ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Renormalized Group Technique and Asymptotics of Reaction-Diffusion Equations
Yi Li, University of Iowa
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
SPECIAL APPLIED MATHEMATICS LAB SEMINAR: 12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Stability and Dynamics of Localized Patterns for a Reaction-Diffusion System
Michael Ward, Mathematics, University of British Columbia
NOTE CHANGE IN TIME AND VENUE
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Speaker Tba
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 101
Tba
Oren Cheyette, Barra
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: CANCELLED
No Seminar because of the Computer Science Department Review
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Robert Shapley, Center for Neural Science and CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1314
  • 3:30 FILM: Channel Flow of a Compressible Fluid (29 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK: Geostrophic Turbulence (Charney 1971)
    Andrea Barreiro, CIMS
Note Special Room Number
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10

MUSIC AT CIMS: 7:30 P.M., 13th Floor Lounge, WWH
Metamorphosen for 23 solo Strings by Richard Strauss. Two successive performances of the work, conducted by Peter Flanders and Michael Tietz, with comments

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11

SPECIAL COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
The Highest Energy Particles from Space
Angela Olinto, University of Chicago
Refreshments will be served from 10:45 - 11:00 A.M. in WWH 1302
Special Computer Science Colloquium co-organized with the Physics Department
http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall02/
NEURO MONDAY SEMINAR: 7:00 - 9:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Adaptive Coding in Visual Cortex and the Properties of Natural Viewing
Valentin Dragoi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~tao/neuroday/schedule.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Microbial Persistence in Hosts: Signaling and the Generation of Diversity
Martin J. Blaser, NYU School of Medicine
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Geometric Rigidity, Curvature Functionals, and Dimension Reduction in Nonlinear Elasticity
Stefan Mueller, Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 4:30 - 6:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Limiting Distributions for Last Passage Percolation Models II: Integrable Methods and Asymptotics
Jinho Baik, Princeton University and University of Michigan
Second lecture of 3. Third lecture is on November 15th.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Tba
Gabor Tardos, Renyi Institute, Budapest
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Fluctuations in an Equilibrium Ensemble of Atmospheric Convection
George Craig, University of Reading
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 813
Tba
Philippe Michel, Montpellier, France
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~sdmiller/

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 9:45 A.M., WWH 1302
Option Pricing with Small Transaction Costs
Charles Fefferman, Princeton University
Last lecture by Charles Fefferman.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Long Time Existence for Quasilinear Second Order Wave Equations from Small Data in the Presence of Obstacles and/or Multiple Speeds
Markus Keel, University of Minnesota
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Stability of Plane Couette Flow
Gunilla Kreiss, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html
SPECIAL COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
New Directions in Cryptographic Protocols
Shafi Goldwasser, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refreshments will be served from 1:45 - 2:00 P.M. in WWH 1302
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 101
Economic Capital for the Credit Risk of Loan and Derivative Portfolios and Issues in Allocating EC to the Individual Transactions of a Portfolio
Evan Picoult, Citigroup
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A posteriori Error Estimation in Turbulent Flow (and transition to turbulence in plane Couette flow)
Johan Hoffman, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Limiting Distributions for Last Passage Percolation Models III: Universality for Discrete Orthogonal Polynomial Ensembles
Jinho Baik, Princeton University and University of Michigan
Last lecture of 3.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: NO SEMINAR
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
HENNING BIERMANN MEMORIAL: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Reception to follow in the Grumman Lounge, 13th floor WWH
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1314
  • 3:30 FILM: Cavitation (32 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK: The CASES Field Experiment
    Chris Konig, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

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Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6

CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS: 1:30 - 5:45 P.M., WWH 1314
  • 1:30 P.M.
    Cell Talk
    Bud Mishra, CIMS and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
    http://cs.nyu.edu/faculty/mishra/
  • 2:15 P.M.
    Towards a Detailed Computational Model for the Mammalian Circadian Clock
    Jean-Christophe Leloup and Albert Goldbeter, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
    http://bioinformatics.cat.nyu.edu/
  • 3:00 P.M.: BREAK
  • 3:30 P.M.
    Molecular Mechanics of Mammalian Circadian Rhythms
    David Weaver, University of Massachusetts Medical School
  • 4:15 P.M.
    New Modeling Techniques which Describe Accurately Genetic Networks and Especially Mammalian Circadian Clocks
    Daniel Forger, CIMS
  • 5:00 P.M.
    Developing Molecular Modeling Software within a BioSPICE Framework
    Dennis Dean, Harvard Medical School
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 813
Poles of Artin L-Functions and the Strong Artin Conjecture
Andrew Booker, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~sdmiller/

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 9:45 - 10:45 A.M., WWH 1302
Sharp Fronts in 2d-Incompressible Fluids
Charles Fefferman, Princeton University
Third lecture by Charles Fefferman. Fourth lecture on 11/14.
ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Renormalized Group Technique and Asymptotics of Reaction-Diffusion Equations
Yi Li, University of Iowa
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
SPECIAL APPLIED MATHEMATICS LAB SEMINAR: 12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M., WWH 1314
The Stability and Dynamics of Localized Patterns for a Reaction-Diffusion System
Michael Ward, Mathematics, University of British Columbia
NOTE CHANGE IN TIME AND VENUE
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 101
Empirical Credit Risk
Oren Cheyette, BARRA
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8

PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Aging for the Bouchaud Trap Model
Gerard Ben Arous, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
PROBABILITY BROWN BAG SEMINAR: 12:30 - 2:00 P.M., WWH 613
Spectral Gap Estimates for Biggsian Point Processes
Filippo Cesi, Universita de Roma `La Sapienza'
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 1:30 P.M., WWH 101
Efficient Construction of (Distributed) Verifiable Random Functions
Yevgeniy Dodis, CIMS
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto
APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Diversity and Dynamics in the Primary Visual Cortex
Robert Shapley, Center for Neural Science and CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1314
  • 3:30 FILM: Channel Flow of a Compressible Fluid (29 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK: Geostrophic Turbulence (Charney 1971)
    Andrea Barreiro, CIMS
Note Special Room Number
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10

MUSIC AT CIMS: 7:30 P.M., 13th Floor Lounge, WWH
Metamorphosen for 23 solo Strings by Richard Strauss. Two successive performances of the work, conducted by Peter Flanders and Michael Tietz, with comments

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11

SPECIAL COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
The Highest Energy Particles from Space
Angela Olinto, University of Chicago
Refreshments will be served from 10:45 - 11:00 A.M. in WWH 1302
Special Computer Science Colloquium co-organized with the Physics Department
http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/fall02/
MAGNETICS WORKING GROUP: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1314
Pattern Formation in Block Copolymers
Rustum Choksi, Simon Frazer University
NEURO MONDAY SEMINAR: 7:00 - 9:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Adaptive Coding in Visual Cortex and the Properties of Natural Viewing
Valentin Dragoi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~tao/neuroday/schedule.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1314
Purkinje Cells as Toggle Switches
Yonatan Loewenstein, Hebrew University
Note special day and time
MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Microbial Persistence in Hosts: Signaling and the Generation of Diversity
Martin J. Blaser, NYU School of Medicine
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Geometric Rigidity, Curvature Functionals, and Dimension Reduction in Nonlinear Elasticity
Stefan Muller, Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/special_analysis_seminar.htm
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 4:30 - 6:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Limiting Distributions for Last Passage Percolation Models II: Integrable Methods and Asymptotics
Jinho Baik, Princeton University and University of Michigan
Second lecture of 3. Third lecture is on November 15th.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Distinct Distances in Higher Dimensions
Gabor Tardos, Renyi Institute, Budapest
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: CANCELLED
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 813
Subconvexity for Rankin Selberg L-functions
Philippe Michel, Montpellier, France
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~sdmiller/

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 9:45 A.M., WWH 1302
Option Pricing with Small Transaction Costs
Charles Fefferman, Princeton University
Last lecture by Charles Fefferman.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Long Time Existence for Quasilinear Second Order Wave Equations from Small Data in the Presence of Obstacles and/or Multiple Speeds
Markus Keel, University of Minnesota
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Stability of Plane Couette Flow
Gunilla Kreiss, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html
SPECIAL COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
The Mathematical Foundations of Cryptography
Shafi Goldwasser, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Note change in title.
Refreshments will be served from 1:45 - 2:00 P.M. in WWH 1302
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 101
Economic Capital for the Credit Risk of Loan and Derivative Portfolios and Issues in Allocating EC to the Individual Transactions of a Portfolio
Evan Picoult, Citigroup
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 613
Public Key Broadcast Encryption for Stateless Receivers
Nelly Fazio
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A posteriori Error Estimation in Turbulent Flow (and transition to turbulence in plane Couette flow)
Johan Hoffman, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Limiting Distributions for Last Passage Percolation Models III: Universality for Discrete Orthogonal Polynomial Ensembles
Jinho Baik, Princeton University and University of Michigan
Last lecture of 3.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: NO SEMINAR
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
HENNING BIERMANN MEMORIAL: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Reception to follow in the Grumman Lounge, 13th floor WWH
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1314
  • 3:30 FILM: Cavitation (32 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK: The CASES Field Experiment
    Chris Konig, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Sequence Dependent Effects on DNA Hairpin Thermodynamics: Results and Applications
Arjun Raj, CIMS
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Isomonodromy Transformations of Linear Systems of Difference Equations
Alexei Borodin, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probsemabs02/fraydounab.pdf

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Polynyas: A Review of Observations and Modelling
Miguel Maqueda, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 813
Automorphic Distributions, L-functions, and Voronoi Summation for GL(3)
Stephen D. Miller, Rutgers University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~sdmiller/

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Claude Le Bris, Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Mathematiques, Informatique et Calcul Scientifique (CERMICS), Ecole des Ponts (ENPC)
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Meredith Betterton, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 101
Learning Models for Credit Risk
Craig Friedman, Standard and Poors
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22

WORKSHOP IN HIGH-LATITUDE OCEANOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE: A two-day workshop, concluding on Saturday, November 23rd, both in Room 101, Warren Weaver Hall
Morning Session Chair: A. MAJDA
  • 9:00 - 9:30 A.M.: Continental Breakfast and Opening Remarks
  • 9:30 - 10:30
    Open-Ocean Polynya Dynamics
    D.M. Holland, CIMS
  • 10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break
  • 11:00 - 12:00 Noon
    Interaction Between Floating Glacier Ice and the Ocean
    A. Jenkins, BAS
  • 12:00 Noon - 1:30: Lunch Break
Afternoon Session Chair: A. TABAK
  • 1:30 - 2:30 P.M.
    Turbulent Exchange and Mixing in the Upper Ocean under Sea Ice
    M.G. McPhee, McPhee Inc.
  • 2:30 - 3:00: Coffee Break
  • 3:00 - 4:00
    Climate Modeling of the Polar Ocean Boundary Layer
    W.G. Large, NCAR
  • 4:00 - 5:00 P.M.
    Thermobaricity and the High-Latitude Mixed Layer System
    R.W. Garwood, NPS
No fee is required, but REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. It is recommended that you register as early as possible as seating is limited to 50. To register, please send email to grady@cims.nyu.edu with the following information: your name, affiliation, mailing address, telephone number, and email address. You will be given a confirmation that you will be required to present at the workshop. No registration is required for CIMS attendees or invited speakers.
For further information and any schedule changes see URL http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/caos_workshop/fall_02/index.htm
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science (CAOS), Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, the Morse Chair of the Faculty of Arts and Science, and New York University
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 613
Universal Padding Schemes for RSA
Shabsi Walfish
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A Boundary Integral Formulation for the Unsteady Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations in Irregular Domains in 2 and 3 Dimensions
George Biros, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Cactus: A Framework for Dynamic Fine-Grain QoS
Richard Schlichting, AT&T Labs - Research
Refreshments will be served from 11:15 - 11:30 A.M. in Room 1302 located on the 13th floor, 251 Mercer Street
APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Michael Shelley, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
COURANT-SUNY JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 3:45 P.M., WWH 102
  • 3:45 - 4:45 P.M.
    Examples of Mather and Arnold of Instabilities in Hamiltonian Systems
    Vadim Kaloshin, IAS
  • 5:00 - 6:00 P.M.
    Symplectic Fillings of Links of Certain Determinantal Singularities
    Mohan Bhupal, Hokkaido University

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23

WORKSHOP IN HIGH-LATITUDE OCEANOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE: A two-day workshop, concluding today in Room 101, Warren Weaver Hall
Morning Session Chair: D. HOLLAND
  • 9:00 - 9:30 A.M.: Continental Breakfast
  • 9:30 - 10:30
    Assessing the Role of Southern Ocean Eddies in Global Climate Sensitivity
    R.W. Hallberg, GFDL
  • 10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break
  • 11:00 - 12:00 Noon
    The Antarctic Circumpolar Current and Its Associated Thermohaline Circulation
    J.C. Marshall, MIT
  • 12:00 Noon - 1:30: Lunch Break
Afternoon Session Chair: O. BUHLER
  • 1:30 - 2:30 P.M.
    Mixing in Dense Overflows
    E.G. Tabak, CIMS
  • 2:30 - 3:00: Coffee Break
  • 3:00 - 4:00
    Preliminary Results from Global Ice-Ocean Simulations of the Thermohaline Circulation
    E.C. Hunke, LANL
  • 4:00 - 5:00 P.M.: Discussion and Wrap-up
    R.W. Garwood, NPS
No fee is required, but REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. It is recommended that you register as early as possible as seating is limited to 50. To register, please send email to grady@cims.nyu.edu with the following information: your name, affiliation, mailing address, telephone number, and email address. You will be given a confirmation that you will be required to present at the workshop. No registration is required for CIMS attendees or invited speakers.
For further information and any schedule changes see URL http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/caos_workshop/fall_02/index.htm
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/caos_workshop/fall_02/index.htm
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science (CAOS), Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, the Morse Chair of the Faculty of Arts and Science, and New York University

Special Announcements


THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
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A complete listing of ITS classes, workshops, and talks is available on the NYU Web at http://www.nyu.edu/its/classes/. Printed copies can be obtained at the ITS Client Services Center, 10 Astor Place, 4th Floor.

Reader Information
Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253. Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email at struse@cims.nyu.edu

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: CANCELLED
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 813
Subconvexity for Rankin Selberg L-functions
Philippe Michel, Montpellier, France
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~sdmiller/

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 9:45 A.M., WWH 1302
Option Pricing with Small Transaction Costs
Charles Fefferman, Princeton University
Last lecture by Charles Fefferman.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Long Time Existence for Quasilinear Second Order Wave Equations from Small Data in the Presence of Obstacles and/or Multiple Speeds
Markus Keel, University of Minnesota
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Stability of Plane Couette Flow
Gunilla Kreiss, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html
SPECIAL COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
The Mathematical Foundations of Cryptography
Shafi Goldwasser, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Note change in title.
Refreshments will be served from 1:45 - 2:00 P.M. in WWH 1302
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 101
Economic Capital for the Credit Risk of Loan and Derivative Portfolios and Issues in Allocating EC to the Individual Transactions of a Portfolio
Evan Picoult, Citigroup
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15

CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 613
Public Key Broadcast Encryption for Stateless Receivers
Nelly Fazio
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A posteriori Error Estimation in Turbulent Flow (and transition to turbulence in plane Couette flow)
Johan Hoffman, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Limiting Distributions for Last Passage Percolation Models III: Universality for Discrete Orthogonal Polynomial Ensembles
Jinho Baik, Princeton University and University of Michigan
Last lecture of 3.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: NO SEMINAR
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
HENNING BIERMANN MEMORIAL: 2:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Reception to follow in the Grumman Lounge, 13th floor WWH
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1314
  • 3:30 FILM: Cavitation (32 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK: The CASES Field Experiment
    Chris Konig, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Sequence Dependent Effects on DNA Hairpin Thermodynamics: Results and Applications
Arjun Raj, CIMS
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Isomonodromy Transformations of Linear Systems of Difference Equations
Alexei Borodin, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probsemabs02/fraydounab.pdf
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Long Monotone Paths in Line Arrangements
Bill Steiger, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Polynyas: A Review of Observations and Modelling
Miguel Maqueda, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 813
Automorphic Distributions, L-functions, and Voronoi Summation for GL(3)
Stephen D. Miller, Rutgers University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~sdmiller/

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
On the Coupled Atomistic/Continuous Modeling for Solid Materials
Claude Le Bris, Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Mathematiques, Informatique et Calcul Scientifique (CERMICS), Ecole des Ponts (ENPC)
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
How Does a Helicase Open DNA Molecules?
Meredith Betterton, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 101
Learning Models for Credit Risk
Craig Friedman, Standard and Poors
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22

WORKSHOP IN HIGH-LATITUDE OCEANOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE: A two-day workshop, concluding on Saturday, November 23rd, both in Room 101, Warren Weaver Hall
Morning Session Chair: A. MAJDA
  • 9:00 - 9:30 A.M.: Continental Breakfast and Opening Remarks
  • 9:30 - 10:30
    Open-Ocean Polynya Dynamics
    D.M. Holland, CIMS
  • 10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break
  • 11:00 - 12:00 Noon
    Interaction Between Floating Glacier Ice and the Ocean
    A. Jenkins, BAS
  • 12:00 Noon - 1:30: Lunch Break
Afternoon Session Chair: A. TABAK
  • 1:30 - 2:30 P.M.
    Turbulent Exchange and Mixing in the Upper Ocean under Sea Ice
    M.G. McPhee, McPhee Inc.
  • 2:30 - 3:00: Coffee Break
  • 3:00 - 4:00
    Climate Modeling of the Polar Ocean Boundary Layer
    W.G. Large, NCAR
  • 4:00 - 5:00 P.M.
    Thermobaricity and the High-Latitude Mixed Layer System
    R.W. Garwood, NPS
No fee is required, but REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. It is recommended that you register as early as possible as seating is limited to 50. To register, please send email to grady@cims.nyu.edu with the following information: your name, affiliation, mailing address, telephone number, and email address. You will be given a confirmation that you will be required to present at the workshop. No registration is required for CIMS attendees or invited speakers.
For further information and any schedule changes see URL http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/caos_workshop/fall_02/index.htm
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science (CAOS), Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, the Morse Chair of the Faculty of Arts and Science, and New York University
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 613
Digital Fingerprinting Codes: Problem Statements, Constructions, Identification of Traitors
Alexander Barg, Bell Labs
NOTE CHANGE IN SPEAKER AND TITLE.
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A Boundary Integral Formulation for the Unsteady Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations in Irregular Domains in 2 and 3 Dimensions
George Biros, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Cactus: A Framework for Dynamic Fine-Grain QoS
Richard Schlichting, AT&T Labs - Research
Refreshments will be served from 11:15 - 11:30 A.M. in Room 1302 located on the 13th floor, 251 Mercer Street
APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
Michael Shelley, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 3:15 P.M., WWH 1013
Erdos-Renyi Scaling for the N-Cube and Beyond
Christian Borgs, Microsoft Research
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COURANT-SUNY JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 3:45 P.M., WWH 102
  • 3:45 - 4:45 P.M.
    Examples of Mather and Arnold of Instabilities in Hamiltonian Systems
    Vadim Kaloshin, IAS
  • 5:00 - 6:00 P.M.
    Symplectic Fillings of Links of Certain Determinantal Singularities
    Mohan Bhupal, Hokkaido University
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 4:30 P.M., WWH 1013
The Phase Transition in the Biased Integer Partitioning Problem
Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Research
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23

WORKSHOP IN HIGH-LATITUDE OCEANOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE: A two-day workshop, concluding today in Room 101, Warren Weaver Hall
Morning Session Chair: D. HOLLAND
  • 9:00 - 9:30 A.M.: Continental Breakfast
  • 9:30 - 10:30
    Assessing the Role of Southern Ocean Eddies in Global Climate Sensitivity
    R.W. Hallberg, GFDL
  • 10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break
  • 11:00 - 12:00 Noon
    The Antarctic Circumpolar Current and Its Associated Thermohaline Circulation
    J.C. Marshall, MIT
  • 12:00 Noon - 1:30: Lunch Break
Afternoon Session Chair: O. BUHLER
  • 1:30 - 2:30 P.M.
    Mixing in Dense Overflows
    E.G. Tabak, CIMS
  • 2:30 - 3:00: Coffee Break
  • 3:00 - 4:00
    Preliminary Results from Global Ice-Ocean Simulations of the Thermohaline Circulation
    E.C. Hunke, LANL
  • 4:00 - 5:00 P.M.: Discussion and Wrap-up
    R.W. Garwood, NPS
No fee is required, but REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. It is recommended that you register as early as possible as seating is limited to 50. To register, please send email to grady@cims.nyu.edu with the following information: your name, affiliation, mailing address, telephone number, and email address. You will be given a confirmation that you will be required to present at the workshop. No registration is required for CIMS attendees or invited speakers.
For further information and any schedule changes see URL http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/caos_workshop/fall_02/index.htm
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/caos_workshop/fall_02/index.htm
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science (CAOS), Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, the Morse Chair of the Faculty of Arts and Science, and New York University

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25

NEURO MONDAY SEMINAR: 7:00 - 9:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Adaptive Coincidence Detection and Dynamic Gain Control in Visual Cortical Neurons in vivo
Charles Gray, Montana State
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~tao/neuroday/schedule.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Stochastic Individual-Based Modeling of the HIV Epidemic
Rachel Blumberg and Meredith Bergman, CIMS
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Classification of Asymptotic Profiles for Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations
Horng-Tzer Yau, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probsemabs02/fraydounab.pdf

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Dynamical System Predictability: An Information Theoretic Perspective
Richard Kleeman, CIMS
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/

Special Announcements


THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
To SUBSCRIBE electronically for the CIMS Weekly Bulletin, send an email message to
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NOTICE:
A complete listing of ITS classes, workshops, and talks is available on the NYU Web at http://www.nyu.edu/its/classes/. Printed copies can be obtained at the ITS Client Services Center, 10 Astor Place, 4th Floor.

Reader Information
Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253. Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email at struse@cims.nyu.edu

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Polynyas: A Review of Observations and Modelling
Miguel Maqueda, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 813
Automorphic Distributions, L-functions, and Voronoi Summation for GL(3)
Stephen D. Miller, Rutgers University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~sdmiller/

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
On the Coupled Atomistic/Continuous Modeling for Solid Materials
Claude Le Bris, Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Mathematiques, Informatique et Calcul Scientifique (CERMICS), Ecole des Ponts (ENPC)
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
How Does a Helicase Open DNA Molecules?
Meredith Betterton, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 101
Learning Models for Credit Risk
Craig Friedman, Standard and Poors
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22

WORKSHOP IN HIGH-LATITUDE OCEANOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE: A two-day workshop, concluding on Saturday, November 23rd, both in Room 101, Warren Weaver Hall
Morning Session Chair: A. MAJDA
  • 9:00 - 9:30 A.M.: Continental Breakfast and Opening Remarks
  • 9:30 - 10:30
    Open-Ocean Polynya Dynamics
    D.M. Holland, CIMS
  • 10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break
  • 11:00 - 12:00 Noon
    Interaction Between Floating Glacier Ice and the Ocean
    A. Jenkins, BAS
  • 12:00 Noon - 1:30: Lunch Break
Afternoon Session Chair: A. TABAK
  • 1:30 - 2:30 P.M.
    Turbulent Exchange and Mixing in the Upper Ocean under Sea Ice
    M.G. McPhee, McPhee Inc.
  • 2:30 - 3:00: Coffee Break
  • 3:00 - 4:00
    Climate Modeling of the Polar Ocean Boundary Layer
    W.G. Large, NCAR
  • 4:00 - 5:00 P.M.
    Thermobaricity and the High-Latitude Mixed Layer System
    R.W. Garwood, NPS
No fee is required, but REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. It is recommended that you register as early as possible as seating is limited to 50. To register, please send email to grady@cims.nyu.edu with the following information: your name, affiliation, mailing address, telephone number, and email address. You will be given a confirmation that you will be required to present at the workshop. No registration is required for CIMS attendees or invited speakers.
For further information and any schedule changes see URL http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/caos_workshop/fall_02/index.htm
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science (CAOS), Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, the Morse Chair of the Faculty of Arts and Science, and New York University
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 613
Digital Fingerprinting Codes: Problem Statements, Constructions, Identification of Traitors
Alexander Barg, Bell Labs
NOTE CHANGE IN SPEAKER AND TITLE.
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A Boundary Integral Formulation for the Unsteady Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations in Irregular Domains in 2 and 3 Dimensions
George Biros, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
Cactus: A Framework for Dynamic Fine-Grain QoS
Richard Schlichting, AT&T Labs - Research
Refreshments will be served from 11:15 - 11:30 A.M. in Room 1302 located on the 13th floor, 251 Mercer Street
APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
The Simple and the Complex in Visual Cortex Dynamics
Michael Shelley, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 3:15 P.M., WWH 1013
Erdos-Renyi Scaling for the N-Cube and Beyond
Christian Borgs, Microsoft Research
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COURANT-SUNY JOINT SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 3:45 P.M., WWH 102
  • 3:45 - 4:45 P.M.
    Examples of Mather and Arnold of Instabilities in Hamiltonian Systems
    Vadim Kaloshin, IAS
  • 5:00 - 6:00 P.M.
    Symplectic Fillings of Links of Certain Determinantal Singularities
    Mohan Bhupal, Hokkaido University
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 4:30 P.M., WWH 1013
The Phase Transition in the Biased Integer Partitioning Problem
Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Research
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23

WORKSHOP IN HIGH-LATITUDE OCEANOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE: A two-day workshop, concluding today in Room 101, Warren Weaver Hall
Morning Session Chair: D. HOLLAND
  • 9:00 - 9:30 A.M.: Continental Breakfast
  • 9:30 - 10:30
    Assessing the Role of Southern Ocean Eddies in Global Climate Sensitivity
    R.W. Hallberg, GFDL
  • 10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break
  • 11:00 - 12:00 Noon
    The Antarctic Circumpolar Current and Its Associated Thermohaline Circulation
    J.C. Marshall, MIT
  • 12:00 Noon - 1:30: Lunch Break
Afternoon Session Chair: O. BUHLER
  • 1:30 - 2:30 P.M.
    Mixing in Dense Overflows
    E.G. Tabak, CIMS
  • 2:30 - 3:00: Coffee Break
  • 3:00 - 4:00
    Preliminary Results from Global Ice-Ocean Simulations of the Thermohaline Circulation
    E.C. Hunke, LANL
  • 4:00 - 5:00 P.M.: Discussion and Wrap-up
    R.W. Garwood, NPS
No fee is required, but REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. It is recommended that you register as early as possible as seating is limited to 50. To register, please send email to grady@cims.nyu.edu with the following information: your name, affiliation, mailing address, telephone number, and email address. You will be given a confirmation that you will be required to present at the workshop. No registration is required for CIMS attendees or invited speakers.
For further information and any schedule changes see URL http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/caos_workshop/fall_02/index.htm
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/caos_workshop/fall_02/index.htm
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science (CAOS), Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, the Morse Chair of the Faculty of Arts and Science, and New York University

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25

NEURO MONDAY SEMINAR: 7:00 - 9:00 P.M., WWH 1314
Adaptive Coincidence Detection and Dynamic Gain Control in Visual Cortical Neurons in vivo
Charles Gray, Montana State
http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~tao/neuroday/schedule.html

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Stochastic Individual-Based Modeling of the HIV Epidemic
Rachel Blumberg and Meredith Bergman, CIMS
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Classification of Asymptotic Profiles for Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations
Horng-Tzer Yau, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probsemabs02/fraydounab.pdf

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Dynamical System Predictability: An Information Theoretic Perspective
Richard Kleeman, CIMS
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/

MONDAY, DECEMBER 2

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 1:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Towards a Robust Self-Consistent Treatment of Radio Frequency Heating in Toroidal Geometry
Dirk Van Eester, Royal Military Academy, Brussels
NOTE CHANGE IN TIME AND ROOM NUMBER
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3

SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Universal Results for Correlations of Characteristic Polynomials: Riemann-Hilbert Approach
Eugene Strahov, Brunel University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probsemabs02/fraydounab.pdf
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 P.M., WWH 613
LP-Orientations of Cubes and Crosspolytopes
Mike Develin, University of California, Berkeley
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Breeding, Data Assimilation, and Predictability
Eugenia Kalnay, University of Maryland, College Park
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 813
Tba
Howard Garland, Yale University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~sdmiller/

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Mark Shattuck, Levich Institute, City College of CUNY
PLEASE NOTE THERE WILL BE TWO SEMINARS TODAY
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Hernan Makse, Levich Institute, City College of CUNY
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 101
Trading Energy Derivatives: New Mathematial Challenges
Rene Carmona, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Direct Simulations of Suspensions of Long Slender Filaments
Anna-Karin Tornberg, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon WWH 613
On the Privacy of Statistical Databases
Irit Dinur, NEC and Institute of Advanced Study
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
A Unified Approach to Meteorological Modelling
Rupert Klein, Potsdam Climate Institute (PIK)
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/
APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Dimension Reduction Methods in the Analysis of Large Genomic Data Sets
Francesca Chiaromonte, Statistics, Penn State
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1314
  • 3:30 FILM: Rarefied Gas Dynamics (33 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK: A Model for Convectively-Coupled Equatorial Waves
    Boualem Khouider, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

Special Announcements


THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
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Reader Information
Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253. Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email at struse@cims.nyu.edu

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Dynamical System Predictability: An Information Theoretic Perspective
Richard Kleeman, CIMS
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/

MONDAY, DECEMBER 2

MAGNETO-FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR: 1:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Towards a Robust Self-Consistent Treatment of Radio Frequency Heating in Toroidal Geometry
Dirk Van Eester, Royal Military Academy, Brussels
NOTE CHANGE IN TIME AND ROOM NUMBER
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/mfd_seminar.html

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Dynamics of Neuronal Networks with Hidden Neurons and Synaptic Failure
David Cai, CIMS
SPECIAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: CANCELLED
Universal Results for Correlations of Characteristic Polynomials: Riemann-Hilbert Approach
Eugene Strahov, Brunel University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probsemabs02/fraydounab.pdf
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 2:30 P.M., WWH 613
Random Matrix Theory and Ranks of Elliptic Curves
Michael Rubinstein, American Institute of Mathematics
NOTE CHANGE IN TIME AND ROOM NUMBER
Cookies and tea served beginning at 2:00 P.M. in the same room
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~sdmiller/
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 P.M., WWH 613
LP-Orientations of Cubes and Crosspolytopes
Mike Develin, University of California, Berkeley
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Breeding, Data Assimilation, and Predictability
Eugenia Kalnay, University of Maryland, College Park
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Eisenstein Series on Arithmetic Quotients of Loop Groups
Howard Garland, Yale University
Note time and room changes: Room 1314. Time is moved early to 5:15 P.M.
Tea is served a half hour before the talk in the same room.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~sdmiller/

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Free Boundary Problems with Volume Constraint; Rupture Set of Thin Films
Hui Qiang Jiang, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Tba
Mark Shattuck, Levich Institute, City College of CUNY
PLEASE NOTE THERE WILL BE TWO SEMINARS TODAY
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 3:30 P.M., WWH 813
Granular Materials Need a New Statistical Mechanics
Hernan Makse, Levich Institute, City College of CUNY
NOTE THE CHANGE IN ROOM NUMBER
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 101
Trading Energy Derivatives: New Mathematial Challenges
Rene Carmona, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Direct Simulations of Suspensions of Long Slender Filaments
Anna-Karin Tornberg, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon WWH 613
On the Privacy of Statistical Databases
Irit Dinur, NEC and Institute of Advanced Study
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Dimers and Amoebas I
Andrei Okounkov, Princeton University
Note: Part II to follow at 12:30 P.M.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
A Search Engine for 3D Models
Thomas Funkhouser, Princeton University
Refreshments will be served from 11:15 - 11:30 A.M. in Room 1302 located on the 13th floor, 251 Mercer Street
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 813
Dimers and Amoebas II
Andrei Okounkov, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
A Unified Approach to Meteorological Modelling
Rupert Klein, Potsdam Climate Institute (PIK)
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/
APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Dimension Reduction Methods in the Analysis of Large Genomic Data Sets
Francesca Chiaromonte, Statistics, Penn State
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
PRESENTATION OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECTS: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Undergraduate math students who did summer research projects supported by the VIGRE grant will be making presentations on their work. Further information on these projects can be found at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/vigrenew/ug_research.htm
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1314
  • 3:30 FILM: Rarefied Gas Dynamics (33 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK: A Model for Convectively-Coupled Equatorial Waves
    Boualem Khouider, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
The Embedded Boundary Integral Equation Method for Viscous Incompressible Flows
Lexing Ying, George Biros, and Denis Zorin, CIMS
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Expander Graphs: Where Combinatorics and Algebra Compete and Cooperate
Avi Wigderson, IAS, Princeton and Hebrew Universities
NOTE: Joint meeting with the Number Theory Seminar
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Influence of the Ocean on the Variability of North Atlantic Climate
Rowan Sutton, University of Reading
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Chaotic Advection in Three-Dimensional Flows: Geometry and Physics
Igor Mezic, University of California, Santa Barbara
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13

THE IBM RESEARCH/NYU/COLUMBIA THEORY DAY: WWH 109
  • 9:30 - 10:00 A.M.: Coffee and bagels
  • 10:00 - 10:55:
    Modern Applications of Bloom Filters
    Andrei Broder, IBM Research
  • 10:55 - 11:05: Short Break
  • 11:05 - 12:00 Noon:
    What Can We Do in Sublinear Time?
    Ronitt Rubinfeld, NEC Laboratories America
  • 12:00 - 2:00 P.M.: Lunch Break
  • 2:00 - 2:55:
    Compact Representations for Data
    Moses Charikar, Princeton University
  • 2:55 - 3:15: Coffee Break
  • 3:15 - 4:10:
    Folding and Unfolding in Computational Geometry
    Erik Demaine, MIT
  • 4:15 - 5:15 P.M.: *NEW*: Wine and Cheese Reception (13th floor lounge)
http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/theory_day.html
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A posteriori Error Estimation for Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
Lilia Krivodonova, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
David Cai, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1314
  • 3:30 FILM: Aerodynamic Generation of Sound (45 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK: Large Deviation Approach to Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
    Kyle Haven, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

Special Announcements


THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
To SUBSCRIBE electronically for the CIMS Weekly Bulletin, send an email message to
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A complete listing of ITS classes, workshops, and talks is available on the NYU Web at http://www.nyu.edu/its/classes/. Printed copies can be obtained at the ITS Client Services Center, 10 Astor Place, 4th Floor.

Reader Information
Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253. Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email at struse@cims.nyu.edu

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Breeding, Data Assimilation, and Predictability
Eugenia Kalnay, University of Maryland, College Park
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/
NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR: 5:15 P.M., WWH 1314
Eisenstein Series on Arithmetic Quotients of Loop Groups
Howard Garland, Yale University
Note time and room changes: Room 1314. Time is moved early to 5:15 P.M.
Tea is served a half hour before the talk in the same room.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~sdmiller/

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5

ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 11:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Free Boundary Problems with Volume Constraint; Rupture Set of Thin Films
Hui Qiang Jiang, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/analysis_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: CANCELLED
Granular Kinetic Theory
Mark Shattuck, Levich Institute, City College of CUNY
PLEASE NOTE THERE WILL BE TWO SEMINARS TODAY
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html
APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: CANCELLED
Granular Materials Need a New Statistical Mechanics
Hernan Makse, Levich Institute, City College of CUNY
NOTE THE CHANGE IN ROOM NUMBER
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE SEMINAR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M., WWH 101
Trading Energy Derivatives: New Mathematial Challenges
Rene Carmona, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/math_finance_seminar.html

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
Direct Simulations of Suspensions of Long Slender Filaments
Anna-Karin Tornberg, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html
CRYPTOGRAPHY SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon WWH 613
On the Privacy of Statistical Databases
Irit Dinur, NEC and Institute of Advanced Study
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/crypto
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Dimers and Amoebas I
Andrei Okounkov, Princeton University
Note: Part II to follow at 12:30 P.M.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM: 11:30 A.M., WWH 1302
A Search Engine for 3D Models
Thomas Funkhouser, Princeton University
Refreshments will be served from 11:15 - 11:30 A.M. in Room 1302 located on the 13th floor, 251 Mercer Street
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 813
Dimers and Amoebas II
Andrei Okounkov, Princeton University
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 1:00 P.M., WWH 1302
A Unified Approach to Meteorological Modelling
Rupert Klein, Potsdam Climate Institute (PIK)
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
NOTE: SPECIAL DATE AND TIME: FRIDAY AT 1:00 P.M.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/
APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Dimension Reduction Methods in the Analysis of Large Genomic Data Sets
Francesca Chiaromonte, Statistics, Penn State
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
PRESENTATION OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECTS: 3:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Undergraduate math students who did summer research projects supported by the VIGRE grant will be making presentations on their work. Further information on these projects can be found at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/vigrenew/ug_research.htm
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1314
  • 3:30 FILM: Rarefied Gas Dynamics (33 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK: A Model for Convectively-Coupled Equatorial Waves
    Boualem Khouider, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10

MOSTLY BIOMATHEMATICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: 12:30 - 1:30 P.M., WWH 1314
The Embedded Boundary Integral Equation Method for Viscous Incompressible Flows
Lexing Ying, George Biros, and Denis Zorin, CIMS
GEOMETRY SEMINAR: 6:00 P.M., WWH 613
Expander Graphs: Where Combinatorics and Algebra Compete and Cooperate
Avi Wigderson, IAS, Princeton and Hebrew Universities
NOTE: Joint meeting with the Number Theory Seminar
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/geometry_seminar.html

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Influence of the Ocean on the Variability of North Atlantic Climate
Rowan Sutton, University of Reading
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Chaotic Advection in Three-Dimensional Flows: Geometry and Physics
Igor Mezic, University of California, Santa Barbara
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html
HOLIDAY LECTURE: 3:00 P.M., WWH 109
Artificial Life
Demetri Terzopoulos, CIMS
HOLIDAY PARTY: 4:30 P.M., 13th Floor Lounge
You and your family are invited to attend the CIMS annual holiday festivities!

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13

THE IBM RESEARCH/NYU/COLUMBIA THEORY DAY: WWH 109
  • 9:30 - 10:00 A.M.: Coffee and bagels
  • 10:00 - 10:55:
    Modern Applications of Bloom Filters
    Andrei Broder, IBM Research
  • 10:55 - 11:05: Short Break
  • 11:05 - 12:00 Noon:
    What Can We Do in Sublinear Time?
    Ronitt Rubinfeld, NEC Laboratories America
  • 12:00 - 2:00 P.M.: Lunch Break
  • 2:00 - 2:55:
    Compact Representations for Data
    Moses Charikar, Princeton University
  • 2:55 - 3:15: Coffee Break
  • 3:15 - 4:10:
    Folding and Unfolding in Computational Geometry
    Erik Demaine, MIT
  • 4:15 - 5:15 P.M.: *NEW*: Wine and Cheese Reception (13th floor lounge)
http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/theory_day.html
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A posteriori Error Estimation for Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
Lilia Krivodonova, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Asymptotic Shape Theorem for Boundary Branching Random Walks
Alejandro Ramirez, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
David Cai, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
NYCNLP FORUM: 2:30 P.M., WWH 102
Automated Extraction of TAGs from the Penn Treebank
John Chen, Columbia University
http://nlp.cims.nyu.edu/nycnlp/
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1314
  • 3:30 FILM: Aerodynamic Generation of Sound (45 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK: Large Deviation Approach to Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
    Kyle Haven, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

Special Announcements


THE CIMS WEEKLY BULLETIN is avilable on the World Wide Web at http://www.cims.nyu.edu/bulletin/
To see the listings for CIMS Seminars, go to: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/
Scroll down, then click on CIMS SEMINARS
To SUBSCRIBE electronically for the CIMS Weekly Bulletin, send an email message to
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NOTICE:
A complete listing of ITS classes, workshops, and talks is available on the NYU Web at http://www.nyu.edu/its/classes/. Printed copies can be obtained at the ITS Client Services Center, 10 Astor Place, 4th Floor.

Reader Information
Announcements Forms for Wednesday's Bulletin should be sent to Pat Struse, WWH 1006. Deadline: Tuesday, 4:00 P.M. Any errors in Wednesday's Bulletin should be directed to Pat Struse at 998-3253. Not responsible for last minute changes or corrections after 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday. No email announcements after 4:00 P.M. on Tuesdays, please, if possible.

Room Assignments: Requests must be made separately in writing to Jude Ali, WWH 909. (Room announcements for classes and oral examinations take precedence over seminars and colloquia)

Circulation: Please send address changes to Pat Struse, CIMS-NYU, 251 Mercer Street, NY, NY 10012-1110, or call (212) 998-3253, or email at struse@cims.nyu.edu

Copying: Larry Cohen

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11

COLLOQUIUM IN ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SCIENCE: 3:30 - 4:30 P.M., WWH 1302
Influence of the Oceans on the Variability of Climate in the North Atlantic/European Region
Rowan Sutton, University of Reading
Sponsored by the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science.
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/atmos_ocean_seminars/

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12

APPLIED MATH LAB SEMINAR: 12:30 P.M., WWH 1314
Chaotic Advection in Three-Dimensional Flows: Geometry and Physics
Igor Mezic, University of California, Santa Barbara
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~barnett/aml.html
HOLIDAY LECTURE: 3:00 P.M., WWH 109
Artificial Life
Demetri Terzopoulos, CIMS
HOLIDAY PARTY: 4:30 P.M., 13th Floor Lounge
You and your family are invited to attend the CIMS annual holiday festivities!

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13

THE IBM RESEARCH/NYU/COLUMBIA THEORY DAY: WWH 109
  • 9:30 - 10:00 A.M.: Coffee and bagels
  • 10:00 - 10:55:
    Modern Applications of Bloom Filters
    Andrei Broder, IBM Research
  • 10:55 - 11:05: Short Break
  • 11:05 - 12:00 Noon:
    What Can We Do in Sublinear Time?
    Ronitt Rubinfeld, NEC Laboratories America
  • 12:00 - 2:00 P.M.: Lunch Break
  • 2:00 - 2:55:
    Compact Representations for Data
    Moses Charikar, Princeton University
  • 2:55 - 3:15: Coffee Break
  • 3:15 - 4:10:
    Folding and Unfolding in Computational Geometry
    Erik Demaine, MIT
  • 4:15 - 5:15 P.M.: *NEW*: Wine and Cheese Reception (13th floor lounge)
http://cs.nyu.edu/csweb/Calendar/colloquium/theory_day.html
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR: 10:00 A.M., WWH 1302
A posteriori Error Estimation for Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
Lilia Krivodonova, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/numerical_analysis_seminar.html
PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR: 10:30 - 11:30 A.M., WWH 1013
Asymptotic Shape Theorem for Boundary Branching Random Walks
Alejandro Ramirez, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
http://www.math.nyu.edu/seminars/probability_seminar.html
APPLIED MATH SEMINAR: 2:00 P.M., WWH 1302
Tba
David Cai, CIMS
http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/shelley/AMSeminar/Seminar.html
NYCNLP FORUM: 2:30 P.M., WWH 102
Automated Extraction of TAGs from the Penn Treebank
John Chen, Columbia University
http://nlp.cims.nyu.edu/nycnlp/
STUDENT SEMINAR IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS: WWH 1314
  • 3:30 FILM: Aerodynamic Generation of Sound (45 mins.)
  • 4:00 TALK: Large Deviation Approach to Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
    Kyle Haven, CIMS
http://fish.cims.nyu.edu/student_GFD

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